Ados runs your ads on Meta, Google, Snapchat and ChatGPT. You approve every ad before it runs.
Run My Ads is an AI ad service for restaurants. Its assistant, Ados, plans, writes and runs Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and Google search ads that show your food to people within a short drive at the hours they decide where to eat, and sends catering and private event requests to your own CRM or inbox. It is for owners and managers who want fuller tables, more orders and more large bookings from ads without an agency, and the restaurant approves every ad before it runs.
Restaurant decisions are quick and close to home. Ados runs short video ads of your food and room to people nearby at the hours they decide, and search ads for people looking for a place to eat right now. Ados makes the ads, you approve every one before it runs, and you can stop any ad any time.
Show one real dish, filmed close, to people within a short drive, in the hour before lunch and dinner. Ados builds short video and image ads from your own footage, runs them in a tight radius around your door, and points them at your menu, booking page or order page. It reports reservations, orders and catering requests where you connect them, and swaps in new dishes as old ads tire.
Base it on what a table or an order is worth to you after food cost, and how many extra covers your kitchen and floor can handle on slower nights. Start in a small radius around the restaurant with one or two dishes or one event, set a daily budget you can hold for a few weeks so the platform can learn, and judge it on bookings, orders and catering requests rather than likes or views. Raise spend only on the ads that fill seats. Ad spend is paid to Meta, Google or Snapchat from your own ad account.
What Run My Ads itself costs: Autopilot is $49 every 30 days; Done For You is $997 every 30 days plus a one-time $297 setup. Ad spend is on top and is not a Run My Ads fee. Big Spender: a custom plan for big budgets, priced on a call. Book one at runmyads.com/intro. See pricing
You can advertise drinks, but the ads must follow Meta's alcohol policy and local law: they may only show to people of legal drinking age in that country, cannot suggest that drinking brings social or personal success, and cannot encourage heavy drinking. Some states and cities also limit drink price promotions, so check before you advertise a drink special with a price. Ados sets the age limit on any ad that shows alcohol and keeps drinking out of the main offer when you would rather lead with food.
Yes. Ados is an AI that plans, writes and runs your restaurant's ads on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Google and YouTube, and can place a sponsored spot next to ChatGPT answers about where to eat in your area. It works inside the spend limit you set and asks you to approve each ad. It does not take reservations or orders; your own booking and ordering systems do.
Run catering and private events as their own campaign, separate from the dinner ads, because planners search and decide differently from someone choosing tonight's meal. On Google, bid on catering and private dining searches in your area; on Facebook and Instagram, show the room set for a group and the trays that travel well, and send people to a short request form with date, headcount and budget. Ados sends each request to your CRM or inbox and judges the campaign on booked events.
What Ados does: Ados runs ads in a tight radius around the restaurant and judges them on bookings and orders, not likes.
Where to start: Set the distance most of your guests really travel.
What Ados does: Ados schedules ads for the days and hours you want to fill, leading with the dish or event you choose for those nights.
Where to start: Name the two nights you most want to fill.
What Ados does: Ados runs a separate catering and events campaign on Google and Facebook, with a short request form sent straight to your team.
Where to start: List your catering menu and minimum order.
The kinds of searches and questions Ados builds restaurants ads around.
Examples of what people type, not search data.
One ad account per channel. Ados plans, makes and runs the ads and reports what each one brought in.
Instagram and Facebook video of your dishes, your kitchen and your room, to people within a short drive, timed before lunch, dinner and the weekend.
Search ads for cuisine and "near me" searches, with catering and private events in their own campaigns. YouTube Shorts from the same kitchen videos.
Full-screen video between Stories for a younger crowd nearby, built from the same kitchen footage.
A sponsored spot next to ChatGPT's answer when someone asks where to eat, book a group dinner or order catering in your area.
Examples, not scripts. Ados writes the ads in your words and you approve each one.
One plate, filmed close, with its name and price.
The kitchen at work. People trust a place they can see.
A separate ad for the bigger orders, with the details planners need.
Specials, seasonal menus and events, refreshed often.
Example ads for Ember Street Kitchen, a made-up business, written to the rules on this page. Yours are written from your own site, and you approve each one.
Example draftsExample
Our wood-fired short rib, braised all afternoon and finished on the grill. Come in tonight or order it to… See more
Sponsored
Wood-fired dishes, a warm room and a patio. See the menu, book a table or order to go.
Feeding a team or a party? Ember Street Kitchen catering brings our wood-fired trays to your office or… See more
Sponsored
Wood-fired catering for offices, parties and events. Send your date for a menu and quote.
Watch our cooks build this week's specials from scratch, from fresh pasta to the grill. Book a table at… See more
Sponsored
Fresh pasta, wood-fired mains and weekly specials. See the menu and book a table.
Example ad, not a real business, a real client or a promise of results.
Most diners will not drive far, so set a small radius around the door and widen it only for catering, events or a destination dish. Time the feed ads before lunch, before dinner and before the weekend, when people are deciding. On Google, cover cuisine and near me searches plus your own name, and keep catering in its own campaign. Snapchat and YouTube Shorts reach a younger crowd nearby with the same kitchen footage.
Ads that show or mention alcohol must be limited to people of legal drinking age and follow Meta, Google and Snapchat alcohol rules, which bar suggesting that drinking brings success and bar encouraging heavy drinking. Many states and cities also limit happy hour and drink price promotions. Health claims about food, such as saying a dish cures anything, are not allowed either. Ados sets the age limits and checks each ad's wording for lines the ad platforms are likely to reject; you stay responsible for your local liquor rules.
Close, real footage of a dish being plated or served beats any stock photo. Show the room, the kitchen and the people who cook, keep the text short, and name the dish. Change the ads often, because food ads tire quickly and a dish that left the menu disappoints the guest who came for it.
Start with one feed campaign in a tight radius and one Google search campaign for your cuisine and name, then add catering once bookings come in. Hold each budget for a few weeks before changing it, and move money toward the nights, dishes and areas that bring bookings and orders. Ados moves budget only inside the limit you set.
Someone nearby sees your food, or searches for a place to eat.
The menu and the fastest way to book or order.
Catering and event requests go straight to your CRM.
Judged on bookings, orders and catering requests when you connect them.
Run My Ads runs ads. It does not call or text your leads; each lead goes to your own CRM or calendar for your team.
The mistakes and platform rules that cost restaurants the most.
Most people will not drive far for dinner. Spend near the door.
A dish that left the menu leads to a disappointed guest.
Alcohol ads must follow platform age rules and local law. Set the age limits and keep drinking out of the main offer where needed.
Food ads tire fast. Fresh dishes and fresh video keep them working.
Yes. Ados makes short videos and images of your food and runs them to people nearby. You approve each ad first.
Yes for "near me" and cuisine searches and for catering, where people are choosing right now.
Ados makes ad images and videos, and works best from your own footage of real dishes. You see the price of a new visual before it is made.
No. Ados reports what each ad brought in and recommends what to change next.
The angles and funnel on this page are examples to test, not a promise of results. No plan promises results; the one Done For You appointment credit and its conditions are on the pricing page. This page is general information about ad platform rules, not legal advice; check the rules for your state and trade.
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